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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

DHL Global Forwarding actually got started by taking ocean freight documents by air to expedite release along a new West Coast-Hawaii ocean line. Air freight usage is growing slowly, with less than 1% growth in 2015 among the world’s top freight forwarders, according to Transport Intelligence. in 2015, down from 5% in 2014.

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How Many Basic Tastes are There?

Enterra Insights

Umami was recognized as the scientific term to describe the taste of glutamates and nucleotides back in 1985 at the first Umami International Symposium in Hawaii; however, the term only achieved general recognition as a fifth taste in the last decade. Mother Nature Network, 22 July 2015. [5] News & World Report, 9 October 2015. [6]

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Opening Up

BlueYonder

Yes, I went to Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Florida, California, Hawaii, and to Puerto Rico and Mexico. I graduated college in 2015 and returned to China. My favorite was Puerto Rico as it felt like vacation! This is your second time working at Blue Yonder – can you tell us about your career journey? Yes, it is!

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Columbus Day 2020: A Holiday in Search of a Name

Enterra Insights

… A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[3] Dolasia reports, “South Dakota renamed it ‘Native American Day’ in 1990, while Hawaii has called the holiday ‘Discoverers’ Day’ — in honor of the state’s Polynesian founders — since 1988.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 The actual volcano also triggered a series of tsunamis as far away as South America and Hawaii. trillion economy would be the fifth biggest in the world. Thus, a catastrophic earthquake in California would have a profound supply chain impact.

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019

Enterra Insights

South Dakota renamed it ‘Native American Day’ in 1990, while Hawaii has called the holiday ‘Discoverers’ Day’ — in honor of the state’s Polynesian founders — since 1988. A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[2].

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Good News for Holiday Coffee Lovers — More Investment in Responsible Coffee Supply Chains

SupplyShift

In response to these threats, the coffee industry has taken up the Sustainable Coffee Challenge , a 2015 pledge to protect and preserve native forests, to introduce more sustainable growing practices on coffee farms, and to improve labor conditions in order to ensure the long-term livelihood of tens of millions of workers in the coffee supply chain.